Comments on: Google Earth meets Nature https://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/wordpress/?p=565 Sat, 25 Feb 2006 00:15:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.10 By: liam https://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/wordpress/?p=565&cpage=1#comment-2226 Sat, 25 Feb 2006 00:15:55 +0000 http://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/wordpress/?p=565#comment-2226 It seems like Google Earth is more like a glossy lightweight cousin to ArcGIS than an actual competitor. I’m not terribly familiar with ArcGIS, but I’m under the impression it has quite a number of handy data analysis features and the like.

What Google Earth has on its side is that it seems to have a relatively easy and pretty way of visualizing data: a mildly respectable nerd with no idea of how do to anything in ArcGIS can generate an XML file and throw it into Google Earth without too much of a fuss.

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